Although the history of modern French landscape art is often thought to have begun with impressionism in the 1860s, a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art argues that its true origins go back even farther. In the Forest of Fontainebleau:

"It's beguiling, it may be American, and it may even be eighteenth century." My wife, Judy, made these comments a number of years ago. She was referring to a portrait of a young man that she saw hanging on a wall in an antiques shop in Woodbury, Connectic

The Shaker Museum and Library, Old Chatham, New York, holds the most significant collection of Shaker materials in the world. With more than half obtained directly from Shakers, the collection exhibits remarkable original finishes and detail, superb quali

The Washington D.C. area is rich in garden history and an appreciation of all things botanical. In memory of First Lady and conservationist Lady Bird Johnson (1912-2007), "Inspirations from the Garden" is the theme of the 53rd Washington Antique Show. The

Little is known about the painter Abraham Parsell (1791-1856), whose miniature portraits on ivory continue to charm us today. He produced small, mostly oval portraits housed within a chased metal pendant style frame, often with a small oval aperture on th

The Metropolitan Museum began to form a collection of American furniture of the colonial and early federal periods almost exactly one hundred years ago. The driving force behind this effort was Henry W. Kent, assistant to Robert W. de Forest, the

Visitors to museums or historic houses, as well as readers of home décor catalogues or shelter magazines, may have noted the increasing prevalence of slipcovers on chairs and sofas. Removable coverings for upholstered furniture have a long history of use,

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